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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----because I am aware how important is the investment in our roads to try to prevent the alarming risks that we are seeing with road safety. It is getting worse. I accept that this is a very important matter.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: What public service broadcasting needs is confidence regarding the money that will be available to it in the years ahead, which is what the television licence has offered in the past. If it is to be scrapped, there will be a need to find €130 million or €150 million from someplace else. That is money we will not be able to spend in responding to the issues just raised by party...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: When the Deputy raised this important question earlier, I referred to the budget funding available to homelessness services. This funding ensured that 1,161 households were prevented from entering emergency accommodation through the creation of a tenancy. During 2023 we saw a 25% increase in the number of adults prevented from going into homelessness versus the previous year. The urgency...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank all the Deputies for the different issues they raised. To begin with the issue raised by Deputies McDonald and Bacik, the Minister, Deputy Martin, is going to be in front of an Oireachtas committee for many hours this evening. She will then be in the Dáil tomorrow afternoon making a statement, hearing the views of Deputies and responding at the end to the questions that are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I know, but you could have fleshed it out a little more-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----just to give a bit of acknowledgement of the support that is being offered. I am going to come on to Deputy McGrath in a moment.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: You just wait over there, the Deputy who does not know what an ecosystem is.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We voted for that legislation-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Government Members voted for that legislation because, of course, we appreciate how complex this is. Of course we appreciate the concerns that are there, but this kind of law is needed to put in place the steps that give us a chance of protecting our nature in the time ahead.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Very briefly, I would not like Deputy McGrath to think I am forgetting him for a moment.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Of course I know what an ecosystem is. It is our nature, our food and our environment, which we are in a battle to protect. Those who know it the most are our farmers, who are closest to nature, and the Government will spare no effort-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----in continuing to work with them with the kind of transition and change that are needed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, has indicated his concern regarding the delay in the appointment of the person into that role. He and the Government believe an important intervention is needed to respond back to the issues of public concern the Deputy referred to. The Shannon report into those issues was driven and supported by the Minister after he met survivors and had the kind of issues...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I responded to all the different points the Deputy made. Every point he put to me regarding investment in different parts of the south east I responded to. I outlined what the Government is doing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I responded to his question. I laid out what we are doing. I remind the Deputy that it does not stop him from turning up to all the different announcements made by Government. He is there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: He is eager enough to get into the photo and to take the credit for all the progress the Government is making-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----while of course we know, we need to do more. In 2019, the budget for University Hospital Waterford stood at €201 million. It increased to €268 million, an increase of one third in four years, meaning that 2,758 people are now working in University Hospital Waterford, an increase of 809 since December 2019. I have little doubt that when all of these measures were being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I answered Deputy Shanahan and he was too busy with his Hunger Games. I am outlining the difference that has been made and what has happened. It is also the case that other measures the Government was committed to have happened. St. Declan's Way, the development at Cappoquin, the work that has happened at Mount Congreve are only just a few of the examples of the commitment of Government to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: -----just as we have a commitment to make a difference to every other part of the country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy for raising this extremely important matter. We are all aware of the need to respect the voice of survivors and respond to the suffering and abuse that many have endured. I know the Deputy has been raising this issue for some time and I know the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is very aware of its importance. His Department is working to make a difference to it. On the...